[Community] OSLC RM - meetings during July

[Steve K Speicher]

ian.green at uk.ibm.com wrote on 07/09/2009 02:34:49 PM:

>  An alternative is to separate the requirement representation from 
> the resources to which it is related, as the CM specification does. (See 

> http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmRestApiV1?
> sortcol=table;up=#Managing_multi_valued_properties.)   So the 
> requirement could indicate the presence of a group of links 
> (collected by type?). 
> 
> In the CM approach links are not first-class in the resource model -
> i can't GET a link, nor can I DELETE one: they are not resources. 
> 
Ian,

In CM, these links are resources and can be deleted.  They are just quite 
light weight, the are resources that only have properties such as a label 
and a URL to the resource they represent.  We didn't expand on the 
construct as it followed typical REST semantics.  We introduced the 
collref attribute to identify URL that represent a collection of 
resources, so consumers will know that collection semantics apply: knowing 
that GET'ing the URL from collref will result in a feed/collection of 
resources.  Then those resources can be GET, PUT, DELETE, etc.

Thanks,
Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645
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